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08/04/2013
Thousands Strike Over Job Cuts
HM Revenue and Customs staff are to go on strike as part of industrial action being staged by civil servants over job cuts.
Thousands of employees are expected to take part.
Workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will take part in a half-day walkout, with up to 55,000 workers at call centres and face-to-face enquiry centres at HMRC striking until lunchtime on Monday.
The protest comes on the first day of the new tax year, when a number of changes to benefits as well as the PAYE system come into effect.
On 20 March, the PCS began a three-month campaign of protest over pay, jobs and conditions. It was the same day the Chancellor unveiled the latest Budget.
On Friday, staff at government departments, courts and museums walked out, but another 24-hour strike which had been planned for today at the Home Office has been postponed following a legal challenge from the government.
The PCS has said the protest will now be moved and included as part of a week-long series of walkouts across different parts of the department. This is expected to happen in two weeks' time.
PCS is the fifth-largest trade union in the UK with 270,000 members. Its leader, Mark Serwotka said the strikes were "part of an ongoing campaign of industrial action and protests to cause disruption for the government at key times and put pressure on ministers who are refusing to even talk to us."
(JP)
Thousands of employees are expected to take part.
Workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will take part in a half-day walkout, with up to 55,000 workers at call centres and face-to-face enquiry centres at HMRC striking until lunchtime on Monday.
The protest comes on the first day of the new tax year, when a number of changes to benefits as well as the PAYE system come into effect.
On 20 March, the PCS began a three-month campaign of protest over pay, jobs and conditions. It was the same day the Chancellor unveiled the latest Budget.
On Friday, staff at government departments, courts and museums walked out, but another 24-hour strike which had been planned for today at the Home Office has been postponed following a legal challenge from the government.
The PCS has said the protest will now be moved and included as part of a week-long series of walkouts across different parts of the department. This is expected to happen in two weeks' time.
PCS is the fifth-largest trade union in the UK with 270,000 members. Its leader, Mark Serwotka said the strikes were "part of an ongoing campaign of industrial action and protests to cause disruption for the government at key times and put pressure on ministers who are refusing to even talk to us."
(JP)
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